You can get rid of Snapchat’s Pushy My AI feature. Here’s How

AI can be fun to play with, but it’s less fun when it’s pressed on your face (or in the case of Snapchat, your face). As a Redditor noted About Snapchat’s My AI feature People use Snap to send funny pictures or flirt when they first log into the social media app. There’s no reason for AI to intrude on your chats or blank photos.

My AI is Snapchat’s chatbot, allowing you to ask questions, seek advice, and keep the conversation going. It is powered by ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Google Gemini’s GPT models.

It’s easy to accidentally click My AI because it’s at the top of the conversation. Users were quick Since its introduction in April 2023, AIbecause you need to be a paying user to remove it. An AI bot that pops up mid-conversation with a friend is annoying and exciting.

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However, updates this September will include more promising AI features for Snapchatters, as the app starts to feel more like Google Lens and the new Apple Visual Intelligence. For example, you can take a selfie to see what someone will look like in their old age, translate menus from foreign languages, interpret confusing parking signs, and identify the type of plant.

I tried the plant test myself. He thought my money tree was sushi.

While it’s fun to experiment with the possibilities and perplexities of AI, if you’re aware of it in your conversations and stories, here are some steps you can take to ease your mind.

Stop browsing Snap

To change the default settings that give Snap automatic access to your stories and data, you need to take a few critical steps.

In your privacy settings, you can see that My AI is on the list of “friends” who can access your Snapchat Story.

Hidden. It doesn’t sit “comfortably” at the top like it does in the Chat section.

If you agree to have the chatbot access your Stories for the purpose of more accurately responding to queries, this may be fine for you. But if it doesn’t suit you, you can turn it off.

Block AI in stories

There are two ways to prevent my AI from viewing your Stories:

1. Go to Settings, click View My Story in Privacy Controls, then under Custom, search for AI and click Block.
2. Go to a chat, click the My AI button in the top banner, then tap and hold My AI in a message conversation. Select Privacy Settings and turn it off.

Go back to check if it’s blocked.

Delete your data from My AI

Now that it’s out of your Stories, delete your data from my AI. Again, the default setting is to save your conversations, so you should turn it off. To clear all historical data, go to Settings > Privacy Controls and tap Clear Data, then clear my AI data.

Easy peasy.

Completely delete my AI

If you’re a Snapchat Plus subscriber — $2 for the first two months, then $4 a month after that — you can delete or unblock my AI entirely. Just press and hold My AI in a Chat, tap Chat Settings, then clear it from the Chat Feed.

To remove it, tap the Snapchat Plus banner on your Profile and change My AI from Saved to Unsaved.

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However, if you like AI features, you can access exclusive subscriber-only benefits like the ability to edit and enhance Snaps using generative AI tools and create unlimited AI replies and captions.

As we see more AI integration on social media platforms, some of you will embrace it, while others will boycott tools that force it on your face. Platforms like Snapchat capitalize on this annoyance by making non-AI features part of a paid membership, while others like Instagram can’t be turned off. AI will continue to change the social media landscape, and we will have to compromise on cost or convenience.

But as we saw with Snapchat, if you don’t want to pay or use AI, there are still solutions to enjoy these tools.